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Earlier this week Apple was adamant that it would close the iTunes Store if the Copyright Royalty Board raised the royalties paid to music publishers, rather than be forced into either accepting smaller margins on the music downloads it sells or be forced into hiking prices.

The way these things work, Apple pays something in the region of 70 cents on every dollar of music sold to the record labels concerned.

The record labels pay around 9 cents of this to the copyright holders of the music, the music publishers.

With me so far? Good. Trouble is, the National Music Publishers Association in...

It has not been a good day for Apple. Actually, let me rephrase that - it has not been a good day for Apple customers.

Here in the UK supplies of the Jesus Phone, the all new iPhone 3G, were scarce to say the least. Those people who did brave the early morning queues and get their hands on a handset were soon finding themselves coming down from the temporary high as they tried to activate the devices.

The same problem has apparently been hitting iPhone 3G users the world over.

Disney has made a projected $123 million in sales of video via Apple iTunes.

The estimate comes from comments that Disney CEO Bob Iger made at the Digital Hollywood Media Summit.

Iger said Disney has sold 4 million movies and 40 to 50 million videos through iTunes, since it made content available on the service in 2006.

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